Website • Email Updates • Gitter • Forum • Meetups • Twitter • Facebook • Contact Us

Serverless Examples

A collection of ready-to-deploy Serverless Framework services.

Table of Contents

Click to expand

• Getting Started
• Examples
• Community Examples
• Contributing
  • Adding example code
  • Adding a community example

Getting Started

If you are new to serverless, we recommend getting started with by creating an HTTP API Endpoint in NodeJS, Python, Java, or Golang.

Examples

Each example contains a README.md with an explanation about the service and it's use cases.

Have an example? Submit a PR or open an issue. ⚡️

To install any of these you can run:

serverless install -u https://github.com/serverless/examples/tree/master/folder-name -n my-project

Example	Runtime
Aws Dotnet Rest Api With Dynamodb Reading/Writing operations using .NET Core and DynamoDB	dotnet
Aws Lambda Layer	nodeJS
Aws Golang Auth Examples These example shows how to run a Golang lambda with authentication	golang
Aws Golang Dynamo Stream To Elasticsearch This example deploys a DynamoDB Table, an Elasticsearch Node, and a lambda triggered off of a Dynamo Stream which updates an elasticsearch index with the data from the Dynamo Table	golang
Aws Golang Http Get Post Example on Making Parameterized Get and Post Request with Golang	golang
Aws Golang Simple Http Endpoint Example demonstrates how to setup a simple HTTP GET endpoint with golang	golang
Aws Golang Stream Kinesis To Elasticsearch Pull data from AWS Kinesis streams and forward to elasticsearch	golang
Aws Alexa Skill This example demonstrates how to use an AWS Lambdas for your custom Alexa skill.	nodeJS
Aws Node Auth0 Cognito Custom Authorizers Api Authorize your API Gateway with either Auth0 or Cognito RS256 tokens.	nodeJS
Aws Auth0 Api Gateway Demonstration of protecting API gateway endpoints with auth0	nodeJS
Aws Node Dynamic Image Resizer	nodeJS
Aws Node Dynamodb Backup Serverless DynamoDB changes backed up to S3	nodeJS
Aws Env Variables Encrypted In A File Serverless example managing secrets in an encrypted file	nodeJS
Aws Env Variables This example demonstrates how to use environment variables for AWS Lambdas.	nodeJS
Aws Fetch File And Store In S3 Fetch an image from remote source (URL) and then upload the image to a S3 bucket.	nodeJS
Sfe Demo Leadcapture	nodeJS
Frontend	nodeJS
Aws Function Compiled With Babel Demonstrating how to compile all your code with Babel	nodeJS
Serverless Github Check	nodeJS
Aws Github Webhook Listener Extend your github repositories with this github webhook listener	nodeJS
Graphql Api And Serverless	nodeJS
Aws Node Graphql Api With Dynamodb A single-module GraphQL endpoint with query and mutation functionality.	nodeJS
Aws Lambda And Heroku Postgres Shows how to connect AWS Lambda to Heroku Postgres. Uses an api:release Heroku webhook and the Heroku API to handle automatic Heroku Postgres credential rotation.	nodeJS
Aws Iot Event Example on how to setup a AWS IoT Rule to send events to a Lambda function	nodeJS
Aws Lambda And Mongodb Atlas Shows how to connect AWS Lambda to MongoDB Atlas.	nodeJS
Dropbox dropbox integration	nodeJS
Aws Node Puppeteer When it comes to AWS Lambda function , they have their own limits as follows So , When you try to use Puppeteer your deployment package size(unzipped) easily go's above 250 mb because When you install Puppeteer, it downloads a recent version of Chromium (~170MB Mac, ~282MB Linux, ~280MB Win) that is guaranteed to work with the API.	nodeJS
Aws Node Rekognition Analysis S3 Image Analyse an Image from an S3 Bucket with Amazon Rekognition	nodeJS
Aws Node Restapi Mongodb Serverless REST API with MongoDB using Mongoose and Bluebird	nodeJS
Aws Rest Api Offline Serverless REST API with DynamoDB and offline support	nodeJS
Aws Rest With Dynamodb Serverless CRUD service exposing a REST HTTP interface	nodeJS
Aws Fetch File And Store In S3 Fetch an image from remote source (URL) and then upload the image to a S3 bucket.	nodeJS
Aws Scheduled Cron Example of creating a function that runs as a cron job using the serverless schedule event	nodeJS
Aws Scheduled Weather Example of creating a function that runs as a cron job using the serverless schedule event through pulling weather and sending an email daily.	nodeJS
Aws Serve Dynamic Html Via Http Endpoint Hookup an AWS API Gateway endpoint to a Lambda function to render HTML on a GET request	nodeJS
Aws Node Serverless Gong A simple serverless gong using GitHub webhooks and a Slack app	nodeJS
Aws Node Ses Receive Email Body Receive an email, store in S3 bucket, trigger a lambda function.	nodeJS
Aws Node Ses Receive Email Header Receive an email, trigger a lambda function to process header.	nodeJS
Shared Aws Api Gateway Nodejs A sample of implementing shared API gateway with multiple Node Lambdas.	nodeJS
Aws Node Singned Uploads Serverless example for S3 signed uploads	nodeJS
Aws Serve Simple Http Endpoint Example demonstrates how to setup a simple HTTP GET endpoint	nodeJS
Aws Node Simple Transcribe S3 Example demonstrates how to setup a lambda function to transcribe audio file	nodeJS
Aws Single Page App Via Cloudfront Demonstrating how to deploy a Single Page Application with Serverless	nodeJS
Serverless Single Page App Plugin A plugin to simplify deploying Single Page Application using S3 and CloudFront	nodeJS
Aws Node Stripe Integration This example for Stripe integration using AWS Lambda and API Gateway.	nodeJS
Aws Text Analysis Via Sns Post Processing Example demonstrates how to setup a simple data processing pipeline	nodeJS
Aws Node Twilio Send Text Message Send a text message via twilio from aws lambda. See live demo	nodeJS
Baddadjokesbot	nodeJS
Nest Serverless serverless app	nodeJS
Typescript Example	nodeJS
Upload To S3 And Postprocess Upload a files to S3 to trigger a lambda function.	nodeJS
Aws Node Vue Nuxt Ssr Sample project for using Nuxt.js to create a server-side rendered Vue.js app on AWS Lambda and AWS API Gateway. Can easily integrate with your own API or 3rd party APIs such as headless CMS, e-commerce or serverless architecture.	nodeJS
Aws Nodejs Websockets Authorizers Simple example that demonstrates how to use authorizer functions with websocket events	nodeJS
Aws Alexa Skill This example demonstrates how to use an AWS Lambdas for your custom Alexa skill.	python
Aws Auth0 Api Gateway Demonstration of protecting API gateway endpoints with auth0	python
Aws Python Line Echo Bot this is echo bot on LINE message	python
Aws Python Pynamodb S3 Sigurl Serverless signed uploader REST API using pynamodb, s3 generated events, custom log format, and DRY serverless.yml with custom section	python
Aws Rest With Dynamodb Serverless CRUD service exposing a REST HTTP interface	python
Aws Rest With Faunadb Serverless CRUD service exposing a REST HTTP interface	python
Aws Rest With Pynamodb Serverless CRUD service exposing a REST HTTP interface	python
Aws Scheduled Cron Example of creating a function that runs as a cron job using the serverless schedule event	python
Aws Simple Http Endpoint Example demonstrates how to setup a simple HTTP GET endpoint with python	python
Serverless Telegram Bot This example demonstrates how to setup an echo Telegram Bot using the Serverless Framework ⚡🤖	python
Aws Ruby Line Bot Example demonstrates how to setup a simple Line echo bot on AWS	ruby
Aws Ruby Simple Http Endpoint Example demonstrates how to setup a simple HTTP GET endpoint	ruby
Azure Nodejs Azure Functions sample for the Serverless framework	nodeJS
Azure Node Simple Http Endpoint An example of making http endpoints with the Azure Functions Serverless Framework plugin	nodeJS
Azure Nodejs Azure Functions sample for the Serverless framework	nodeJS
Google Golang Simple Http Endpoint Example demonstrates how to setup a simple HTTP GET endpoint with golang	golang
Google Node Simple Http Endpoint An example of making http endpoints with the Google Cloud Functions Serverless Framework plugin.	nodeJS
Gcp Node Typescript Simple Simple HTTP example for GCP functions by Serverless framework with Typescript	nodeJS
Google Python Simple Http Endpoint Example demonstrates how to setup a simple HTTP GET endpoint with python	python
Kubeless Python Simple Function This example demonstrates how to setup a simple Python function with Kubeless	python
Kubeless Python Simple Scheduled Function This example demonstrates how to setup a simple Python function with Kubeless	python
Openwhisk Go Simple Example demonstrates how to setup a simple Go function with OpenWhisk.	nodeJS
Openwhisk Node And Docker Chaining Functions Example of chaining function calls using sequences and docker images.	nodeJS
Openwhisk Node Chaining Functions Example of chaining function calls using sequences and the sdk.	nodeJS
Openwhisk Node Scheduled Cron Example of creating a function that runs as a cron job using the serverless schedule event.	nodeJS
Openwhisk Node Simple Http Example demonstrates how to setup a simple HTTP GET endpoint with OpenWhisk.	nodeJS
Openwhisk Node Simple Simple example demonstrating OpenWhisk provider support.	nodeJS
Openwhisk Php Simple Example demonstrates how to setup a simple PHP function with OpenWhisk.	php
Openwhisk Python Scheduled Cron Example of creating a Python function that runs as a cron job using the serverless schedule event.	python
Openwhisk Python Simple Http Endpoint Example demonstrates how to setup a simple HTTP GET endpoint with OpenWhisk.	python
Openwhisk Python Simple Example demonstrates how to setup a simple Python function with OpenWhisk.	python
Openwhisk Ruby Simple Example demonstrates how to setup a simple Ruby function with OpenWhisk.	ruby
Openwhisk Swift Package With Precompiled Binaries Swift packages and pre-compiled binaries on OpenWhisk.	swift
Openwhisk Swift Scheduled Cron Example of creating a Swift function that runs as a cron job using the serverless schedule event.	swift
Openwhisk Swift Simple Http Endpoint Example demonstrates how to setup a simple HTTP endpoint using Swift function with OpenWhisk.	swift
Openwhisk Swift Simple Example demonstrates how to setup a simple Swift function with OpenWhisk.	swift

Community Examples

Add an example

To install any of these you can run:

serverless install -u https://github.com/author/project -n my-project

Example	Author
Aws Api Gateway Serverless Project Written In Go A serverless project that contains an API Gateway endpoint powered by a Lambda function written in golang and built using eawsy/aws-lambda-go-shim.	yunspace
Aws Cognito Custom User Pool Example Example CloudFormation custom resource backed by a lambda using Cognito User Pools	bsdkurt
Aws Lambda Power Tuning (Powered By Step Functions) Build a Step Functions state machine to optimize your AWS Lambda Function memory/power configuration.	alexcasalboni
Aws Lambda, Amazon Api Gateway, S3, Dynamodb And Cognito Example Step by step guide how to deploy simple web application on top of AWS Lambda, Amazon API Gateway, S3, DynamoDB and Cognito.	andreivmaksimov
Aws Demo Java Spring Cloud Function Serverless If Java is your choice of programming language-Spring Cloud Function,Serverless Framework makes a great technology stack. It boosts developer productivity by decoupling from Vendor specific FaaS API, and deployment activities.	mbsambangi
Amazon Kinesis Streams Fan Out Via Kinesis Analytics Use Amazon Kinesis Analytics to fan-out your Kinesis Streams and avoid read throttling.	alexcasalboni
Commenting Api A commenting api using Serverless Typescript GraphQl and Redis	AyoubEd
Daily Instance Backups With Ami Rotation A simple Python application which scans through your entire AWS account for tagged instances, makes daily AMIs of them, and rotates their backups automatically	AndrewFarley
Dropbucket Serverless File Sharing A serverless file sharing app powered by Cognito/S3/Lambda/API Gateway. Includes a React single-page app UI and virus scanning.	marksteele
Fotopia Serverless A photo archive web app including API, storage and face detection using serverless framework	mbudm
Json Serverless A simple & cheap serverless REST API using json-server in combination with AWS Lambda / S3 and the serverless framework	pharindoko
Lambda Pubsub Via Sns Example Example illustrating the flow: Lambda (publisher) => SNS => Lambda (consumer)	didil
Nietzsche A serverless application that fetches quotes from Goodreads and saves it to DynamoDB with example use cases using Lambda, SNS, SQS, Step Functions, DynamoDB, API Gateway, CloudWatch	rpidanny
Open Bot An unoptionated Github bot driven by a configuration file in the repository	open-bot
Personal Access Tokens Cron Check Audit for leaked PAT in your Contentful organization. How to use serverless as cronjobs to keep your Personal Access Tokens secure	madtrick
React & Stripe Serverless Ecommerce Serverless E-Commerce App with AWS Lambda, Stripe and React	patrick-michelberger
Realtime Ww2 Alexa Skill An alexa skill project that's using Alexa SDK. Can also be used for a working example of serverless-webpack (with use of async/await via babel).	ceilfors
Run Your Kubernetes Workloads On Amazon Ec2 Spot Instances With Amazon Eks And Lambda Part 1 From this tutorial you'll learn how to add AWS EKS Cluster with Spot Instances to your cloud environment managed by Serverless framework	andreivmaksimov
Run Your Kubernetes Workloads On Amazon Ec2 Spot Instances With Amazon Eks And Lambda Part 2 From this article you'll learn how to configure AWS Lambda functions to allow them manage your EKS Kubernetes cluster and run triggered jobs	andreivmaksimov
Sqs Worker With Aws Lambda And Cloudwatch Alarms Process messages stored in SQS with an auto-scaled AWS Lambda worker function.	sbstjn
Serverless + Lambda + Vpc + Nat + Redis Demo using API Gateway and Lambda with VPC and NAT to access Internet and AWS Resource	ittus
Serverless Analytics Write your own Google Analytics clone and track website visitors serverless with API Gateway, Kinesis, Lambda, and DynamoDB.	sbstjn
Serverless Architecture Boilerplate Boilerplate to organize and deploy big projects using Serverless and CloudFormation on AWS	msfidelis
Serverless Cloudwatch Proxy Logging adapter that consumes log streams from AWS CloudWatch, streams them to other log destinations. Also capable of identying alerts and sending notifications via Slack/Email	abbasdgr8
Serverless Dashboard For Atom Editor Atom editor package which allows you to deploy and visualize your serverless services with Serverless Framework on your editor.	horike37
Serverless Es6/7 Crud Api Serverless Stack examples of backend CRUD APIs (DynamoDB + Lambda + API Gateway + Cognito User Pool authorizer) for React.js single-page app	AnomalyInnovations
Serverless Gitlab Ci Simple Gitlab CI template for automatic testing and deployments	bvincent1
Serverless Instagram Crawler Instagram hashtag Crawler with Lambda & DynamoDB.	kimcoder
Serverless Kakao Bot Easy development for Kakaotalk Bot with Serverless	JisuPark
Serverless Lambda S3 Demonstration This project demonstrates how the Serverless Framework can be used to deploy a NodeJS Lambda function that responds to events in an S3 bucket.	johncmunson
Serverless Load Balancer A sample that shows how to combine a load balancer with (vpc/subnet configuration) with a lambda.	pharindoko
Serverless Q&a Example Inspired by the AWS example forum. A multitenancy Q&A template for surveys, forums and more	jacksoncharles
Serverless Reactjs Universal Rendering Boilerplate ReactJS web app Starter kit does universal (isomorphic) rendering with Serverless	TylorShin
Serverless Ssh Command Example of executing ssh command with OpenWhisk	upgle
Serverless Telegram Bot This example demonstrates how to setup an echo Telegram Bot using the Serverless Framework ⚡🤖	jonatasbaldin
Serverless Ffmpeg Bucket event driven FFMPEG using serverless. Input bucket => Serverless ffmpeg => Output bucket.	kvaggelakos
Serverless Sns Api Build a SNS service on AWS, support backend API for SNS by device, by group and by user	eddielisc
Serverless Side Rendering With Vue.js And Nuxt.js Sample project for using Nuxt.js to create a server-side rendered Vue.js app on AWS Lambda and AWS API Gateway. Can easily integrate with your own API or 3rd party APIs such as headless CMS, e-commerce or serverless architecture.	adnanrahic
Serving Binary Files Small example showing how to serve binary files using Serverless on AWS with the serverless-apigw-binary plugin, using generated Excel files as an example	thomastoye
Spiderless, Web Spider On Serverless A web spider / scraper / website change detector built with Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB and SNS	slashbit
Stack Overflow Monitor Monitor Stack Overflow questions and post them in a Slack channel	picsoung
Adoptable Pet Bot Tweets adoptable pets using Serverless (Node.js) and AWS Lambda	lynnaloo
Aws Mfa Enforce Serverless function to automate enforcement of Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) to all AWS IAM users with access to AWS Management Console.	Chan9390
Aws Node Signed Uploads Upload files larger than 10MB with AWS Lambda and API Gateway. Can be developed and tested locally.	kalinchernev
Aws Ses Serverless Example AWS SES example in NodeJS using lambda	lakshmantgld
Bablebot Lambda + API Gateway: Zero-to-chatbot in <10 lines of JS. Built-in integrations for Messenger, Telegram, Kik, Line, Twilio, Skype, and Wechat. Or roll your own!	abiglobalhealth
Bittman A serverless project that follows a stock trading algorithm and uses scheduled functions to save data to DynamoDB and send emails through Mailgun.	rhlsthrm
Cordis Serverless A serverless API for EU Cordis data	marzeelabs
Faultline Error tracking tool on AWS managed services.	faultline
Giphy Bot giphy-bot for Facebook chat	tywong
Grants Api Serverless ES6 API to consume data from an external API, ingest into Elasticsearch and return a queryable endpoint on top of Elasticsearch	comicrelief
Honeylambda a simple, serverless application designed to create and monitor URL {honey}tokens, on top of AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway	0x4D31
Jrestless Examples JRestless (Java / JAX-RS) examples for API Gateway Functions (plain JAX-RS, Spring, binary data requests/responses, custom authorizers and Cognito User Pool authorizers), SNS Functions (asynchronous communication between functions) and Service Functions (synchronous HTTP-like communication between functions - transparent through Feign)	bbilger
Jwt Lambda Python Minimal proof-of-concept implementation of JWT with Serverless / AWS Lambda	mikaelmork
Jwtauthorizr Custom JWT Authorizer Lambda function for Amazon API Gateway with Bearer JWT	serverlessbuch
Keboola Developer Portal Keboola developer portal built with Serverless	keboola
Offset Trump Single page app using Serverless (C# runtime) and S3 site hosting. Pledge to do a good thing for the next four years to offset the potential negative effects of the US Presidency	FLGMwt
Owntracks Serverless A serverless implementation of the OwnTracks HTTP backend	dschep
Pfs Email Serverless This is a lambda function created by the serverless framework. It searches through members in our mongodb who have not been sent emails and sends them an email with their custom token to unlock the pledge free stream. It then marks those members off as already receiving the email.	SCPR
Plaid Cashburndown Service Service for calculating cash burndown with plaid. Frontend code can be found here: https://github.com/cplee/cashburndown-site	cplee
Sc5 Serverless Boilerplate A boilerplate that contains setup for test-driven development	SC5
Serverless + Java Dynamodb Imlementation Example example for java programmers that want to work with AWS-Lambda and DynamoDB	igorbakman
Serverless + Lambda Protobuf Responses Demo using API Gateway and Lambda with Protocol Buffer	theburningmonk
Serverless + Medium Text To Speech Serverless-based, text-to-speech service for Medium articles	RafalWilinski
Serverless Dotnet Boilerplate A serverless starter solution for .NET Core, ready for local debugging in VS Code, HTTP Endpoint, etc.	pharindoko
Serverless Aws Rekognition Finpics Use AWS Rekognition to provide a faces search of finpics.com	rgfindl
Serverless Api Typescript Template A starter template for a Serverless API using Typescript and Jest	JoshuaToth
Serverless Blog To Podcast Service that reads RSS feed and converts the entries to a podcast feed and audio files using Amazon Polly	SC5
Serverless Cloudwatch Rds Custom Metrics A NodeJS-based MySQL RDS Data Collection script to push Custom Metrics to Cloudwatch with Serverless	AndrewFarley
Serverless Delivery Framework This is a boilerplate for version release pipeline with serverless framework	99xt
Serverless Examples Cached Rds Ws A serverless framework example project that uses API Gateway, ElastiCache, and RDS PostgreSQL.	mugglmenzel
Serverless Facebook Quotebot 100% Serverless Facebook messenger chatbot which will respond with inspiring quotes	pmuens
Serverless Garden Aid IoT Garden Aid Backend	garden-aid
Serverless Graphql Api Serverless GraphQL API using Lambda and DynamoDB	boazdejong
Serverless Html Pdf Service that convert HTML to PDF using PhantomJS's rasterize example.	calvintychan
Serverless Image Manager image upload / download with resizing. Used API gateway's binary support & serverless	TylorShin
Serverless Mailgun Slack A Serverless function for posting to a Slack Webhook in response to a Mailgun route	Marcus-L
Serverless Messenger Boilerplate Serverless messenger bot boilerplate	SC5
Serverless Modern Koa Serverless modern koa starter kit	barczaG
Serverless Msg Gateway A messaging aggregator for kik, skype, twilio, telegram, & messenger. Send and receive messages in a standard format.	yonahforst
Serverless Newsletter Signup Saves user details into DynamoDB table. Required values are email, first_name and last_name.	dschep
Serverless Node Api Dynamodb Neo4j Architecture example to stream DynamoDB data to a read-model using Neo4j	noetix
Serverless Npm Registry Serverless private npm registry, proxy and cache.	craftship
Serverless Pokego Serverless-powered API to fetch nearby Pokemon Go data	jch254
Serverless Postgraphql GraphQL endpoint for PostgreSQL using postgraphql	rentrop
Serverless Python Rds Cron A serverless python example that periodically removes entries from AWS RDS	caulagi
Serverless Python Sample A simple serverless python sample with REST API endpoints and dependencies	bennybauer
Serverless React Boilerplate A serverless react boilerplate for offline development	99xt
Serverless Screenshot Serverless Screenshot Service using PhantomJS	svdgraaf
Serverless Slack Cron Lambda function which sends messages to Slack channel in regular intervals via cron trigger.	ivanderbu2
Serverless Slack Emojibot Serverless slack bot for emoji	markhobson
Serverless Slack Trevorbot Slack bot for info on where in the world is Trevor Gerhardt?	conveyal
Serverless Url Shortener A simple url-shortener, using Serverless framework	aletheia
Serverless Weekly2pocket App Serverless-powered API for sending posts to pocket app	s0enke
Slack Signup Serverless Serverless signup to Slack and more. Lambda with Python, StepFunctions, and Web front end. Python boilerplate included.	dzimine
Sls Access Counter Site visitor counter	takahashim
Sls Form Mail Send SNS email from form data	takahashim
Vanity Stargazer Github vanity-stargazer is a serverless application to handle posting Github new star gazers to Slack	silvermullet
Video Preview And Analysis Service An event-driven service that generates labels using Amazon Rekognition and creates preview GIF animation from a video file.	laardee

Contributing

We are happy to accept more examples from the community. 🎉

Adding example code

1. Make sure your contribution matches the linting setup for this repo:

Run the linting via

npm run lint

2. Add a package.json file in your example with the name of the example and a description and any dependencies used.

3. Regenerate the README.md with the following command

npm run docs

4. Open a new pull request with your example. ⚡️

Adding a community example

We love hearing about projects happening in the community. Feel free to add your serverless project to our growing list.

1. Add link, title, and description to the community-examples.json file.

2. Open a new pull request with your example. ⚡️